STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1480

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1461

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1461 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make a technical amendment to the law pertaining to the transfer of nongeneral funds to general funds.

Your Committee finds that, currently, the Public Utilities Commission is not authorized to use the Public Utilities Commission special fund for expenses incurred in the administration of chapter 486H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to gasoline dealers. Your Committee has received testimony on a proposed draft of this measure that would allow the Commission to use the special fund for this purpose.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with provisions that authorize the Public Utilities Commission to use its special fund for expenses incurred in the administration of chapter 486H, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1461, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1461, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair